Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.
American fundamentalist thought connected strongly to reactionary political ideology as nervous Christians pushed back against liberal reforms on many fronts.
At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.
I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.
The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
Fundamentalists are crazy. They're the real world equivalent to the evil geniuses of our spy fiction and our superhero comics. They want to mold the world into a specific shape that they really believe in, and if you don't believe in that, if you can't relate to that, it just seems crazy.
There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.
Fundamentalists from every religion have to be replaced, have to be disempowered.